The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-03
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

think you will do in the next worldl Colored
Party-Nuffin'-if they will let me.
LAKE kosHKoMING, in Wisconsin, is Stunned
by persons who believe some hunters who claim
to have seen a sixty foot snake there.
CAssELL & CO. announce that they will here
after publish The Womans World, magazine
edited by Oscar Wilde, in this country us well
as in England
JAY GOULD has only grown Indifferent to
his wearing apparel within the last few years.
He once paid big tailor bills and one occasion
gave $50 for q pair of suspenders with gold
buckles and he wore them
Mr.. A. j. DREXEL, of Philadelphia invested
$780, 900 for his first grandson who made his bow
to appreciative world the other day. This will
count up nearly quarter of a million for the
boy by the time he becomes voter
CALVIN Fl. SCHIvELY, of Philadelphia, saved
of his small earnings of twenty-five years,
rying the moneyin belt strapped around his
body. When he had accumulated $1,000 he in
vested it in business with two newlymade ac
Quaintances, and lost it all
HERE is Bill Nye's latest-an epitaph a
deceased moonlight whisky manufacturer in
Tennessee:
Inspected while living
Fermen ted while dead.
His rectiied spirit
Is still dark red.
LIFE: Conductor latter the accident) We'll,
to say. he's cut in two. English Tourist-Aw,
vewy distressing Sorry to trouble you. don't
cherknow, but I've never travelled in this coun-
try before. Would you see in which half is the
key of my trunk.
RIGHT REV. ARTHUR CLEVELAND COKE,
Episcopal Bishop of Western New York, is
handsome man of seventy. In a recent contest
with the Buffalo Jusuits, one of the later offered
Bishop Coke ST, 900 if he would produce his
thority for a certain assertion he had made.
The money is still waiting for him.
NJ. BLoUET, MAX OrRell,' was much inter
ested in the negroes in Washington. They We're
a race to him, and he admired them greatly.
While there he attended a church frequented
by colored people, Il was told he said that
l should be amused. But l was impressed.
The eloquence of the preacher and the earnest
ness of his hearers were both striking and
pleasing
THE illustrious DIR. Blowitz, who on behalf of
The London Times, grants audiences to the
sovereigns of the world, is virtuously indignant
at the inquiry into recent Legion of Honor dis
trbutions. The mean and spiteful enemies of
this great man thereupon remark that ne is the
only English correspondent in France who has
received the red ribbon and they basely insn-
uate that perhaps he received it left handedly;
hence his agitation.
BISMARCK is the busiest man in Germany
He remains at his desk mig htly till 2 o'clock, and
even during his vacation in Kissengen attend
ed to his affairs until long after midnight Dur
ing his night-work he occasionally takes little
green corn" soup. which agrees well with him,
but avoids wine. His servants and even some
officials of rank have to sit up as long as he
does to attend to his dispatches, etc. He gets
up at 1890. When he undertakes journey he
is accompanied by eight detectives and an
officer.
THE church of Hucknal Torkard, Motifs.
England in which is the tomb of Byron, is be-
ing rebuilt, but it is said that not a stone of
Byron's tomb will be disturbed, and
the block of marble sent for the purpose
by the King of Greece, and embel-
lishei with a laurel wreath wrought in brass by
grave, as well as the tablet to his memory, and
the mural monument in memory of his daugh-
ter. Lady Lovelace, will, after the reservation,
occupy the same positions relatively to the grave
as
THE Thanksgiving dinner of the American
students at Oxford, England, presided over
by Professor Dyer, of Harvard University, who
the Queens health Mr.. Charles
Phelps responded to the toast 1.-THE President of
the United States.n He was. he said, more than
glad the Americans in Oxford had organized this
dinner, as it showed they did not forget the
traditions and customs of their own country.
though temporarily separated from it. I'VE
have" continued Mr. Phelps, IA class in Amer
lea known Anglomaniacs. We do not like
them, and am sure the English do not like
them, either" The dinner proved altogether
the success that might have been expected. SIX
teen Americans and ten Englishmen united in
in England this American festival.
Mr.. LABoUcHERE remarks. anent the recent
conservation of Truro Cathedral. that the petit
ion praying for the ceremony was read by the
deputy of the registrar of the dioeeses of Exc
er and Truro, who is the Rev. William Walpole
Heppel, of Lexham Hail. Norfolk This rever-
md gentleman, who is in his eighty third year,
actually holds the very lucrative sinecure of
registrar under the appointment of his grand
ather, Bishop Keppel, who died in IT'S. This
prelate granted the Office of registrar
~ patent for three lives of whom Mr.. Keppel
s the last. The Bishop who held the deanery
# Windsor with his see in commendam, was
married to a niece of Horace Walpole. He
vas consecrated in 1852, he has contrived to
quarter his family upon the diocese for more
han l25 years.
THEN it's no. for the mufier and sealskin cap,
And toboggan slide and skate;
And no, for start, and slip and fall,
And a bruised and bleeding pate.